Play audio when long task is completed? Ding! Fries are done.

Is there any way to trigger a sound to occur when a lengthy task is completed? I have no idea how this would apply in options. Maybe: If Solidworks becomes unresponsive for more than x seconds (or minutes) doing absolutely anything, then play this sound file when it becomes interactive again.

There are plenty of things which can take a long time, depending on the complexity of what you're working on: Save, Open, Set Lightweight to Resolved, Save_As, Import Diagnostics. I'm not familiar with Visualize renderings or Simulation results, but imagine that may also apply.

I know it's too late to suggest an idea. Doh.

I also recognize that the programmers may not wish to draw attention to the idea that not everything is instantaneous as demonstrated with simple examples.

I'd even settle for a 3rd party app which can be set to watch SLDWORKS.exe and do this for me, if anyone knows of something similar or suitable. This may even be preferable to another internal SWx process to watch itself. Does sldProcMon.exe do anything like this?

I searched sounds in the help files and it appears what you want is possible. You will just have to play with it. This is also an example of why I have a hard time with the help files. They tell me something can be done. NOW TELL ME HOW!!!!

Thank you for sharing Jim, I turned on notifications for file open, which is quite useful. Whenever I start a long process (like file open for larger designs) I lack the patience to watch it, so I go to SW forum or whatever website, and of course then who knows when I return to SW.

Now if only it would work for the other big ones (for me:

- Save

- Save as (export step etc..) - this is a big one, long delays. (just like right now as I post here)

With the brief look I gave it I didn't see something for a pending process finishing, but if you decide to pursue this please report back. This could be a fun distraction to an otherwise frustrating situation.

Me too, I'm really looking for Save Complete to trigger a sound. That's what has been taking a very long time for me, Saving a Drawing to a PDF. It took so long (8 to 20 min) that I wrote up this post.